Q: Can I detect if something was made by ChatGPT?
You should follow school policies on enforcing academic integrity.
- Some instructors have started using the version history built into Google Docs to discourage AI use.
- This method requires students to share an editable copy of a Google Doc with you. You will then be able to see how the document was changed over time. Incremental changes indicate typing and a sudden addition of a large swath of new text may indicate that the text was copied and pasted from an external source all at once.
- Turnitin, has implemented AI-detection.
- The real-world accuracy of Turnitin's AI-detection tools is unclear, especially as AI tools change and grow in capability.
- Current AI-detection tools can be easily thwarted by manually rewording the text.
- Freely available AI-detection tools, such as GPTZero, are highly unreliable.
- If students can access the detection tool, they will be able to fine-tune an AI-generated text to be undetectable by that tool.
- Famously, GPTZero makes the mistake of determining that the first 2 articles of the US Constitution were written by an AI (as of April 18, 2023)
